After nearly three decades of hosting downtown theater's biggest, brightest, and bravest, the Ohio Theatre—arguably the last major industrial space in Soho used solely for performance—is closing its hulking loading-dock doors and wrapping up its intrusive stage columns. A stopgap lease the theater signed last year with the new landlord runs out on August 31, at which point the (barely) converted factory will be forced to vacate Wooster Street for good. Performances at the theater have won many Obies over the years, so on the occasion of this year's awards, we asked a number of notables to reminisce about their own productions and the many, many others... More >>>